Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 31, 2021

kids’ll be kids

Alice may want to choreograph that bit of frenzy into her MHC (manhole cover) dance spectacular!

Pretty darn good interpretation if they all got it.

Mum trying not to smile.

Wow! Not one kid thought it was Dill after eating a bowl o’ Mega-Choco Sugar Bombs?

Good one Alice!

Long suffering Madeleine raises her eyes to the skies.

That had to be fun to draw.

This comic is on another plane of existence, and I love it

Alice has to learn never to be right about that kind of thing

I had to go back a couple of days….yes accurate.

She’s not wrong.

When she turns her head, the kids think a Nor’easter is comin’ in…

…The whole room gets dusted…

…Dill disappears!

Mr Kliban, Mr Thompson and Mr Watterson are the best here. Too bad two have passed away and the third is no longer publishing cartoons.

Or you were doing an interpretation of your mother after her 3d cup of coffee in the morning…

She’s gonna sprain something doing that! :)

Spot on Alice, and your talent and stage presence is undeniable; plus you’ve learned a valuable life lesson- even the most artfully expressed truth is often not well received.

If everybody guessed it she should have got an A.

Wow! That was GREAT mime, Alice! You captured “the new hairdo of Miss Bliss” perfectly, as all the kids recognized. But, from what you said in panel 1, I suspect Miss Bliss was not amused….

Eyeroll, Madeline….

I love Alice!

Wow, I really DID laugh out loud! And long! I don’t know why exactly but that struck me funnier than anything I’ve seen in a long time. Kids…